From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[2 Apr 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 198–200, 203; DAR 104: 222
Summary:
JDH explains why he cannot take Scott on at Kew.
John Tyndall cannot answer CD’s questions on glaciers. Edward Frankland’s ignorance. In JDH’s opinion, heaviness of winter snowfall is the greatest element in size of glaciers and this is a function of low mean temperature. Discusses descent of glaciers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
